The Minority Course 2000
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The Minority Course 2000
The Minority Course 2000
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The Minority Course 2000 for young Europeans active in NGOs was
concluded on Saturday July 29th. 59 young Europeans representing 32
different national, cultural and linguistic backgrounds have spend the
last month in Denmark, Fryslan and Transylvania exploring and
discussing various aspects of the European minority question with
special emphasis on the above regions and the overall issue of
minorities and the media.
The event was funded by among others the European Commission, the
European Youth Foundation, the European Cultural Foundation and the
Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Centre in Cluj Romania.
The results of the Minority Course 2000 will be made available on the
website of the project Peoplesite in the very near future. The address
is www.people.hojoster.dk.
The material will include articles written by the participants,
speeches, galleries, short presentations of minority media throughout
Europe and a final concluding report. The articles written by the West
European participants in the Course will focus on ethnic relations in
Transylvania and will be disseminated specifically to NGOs in the
region.
The Minority Course 2000 was concluded with a conference with the
title "Visions for Europe and European Democracy, Intercultural
Dialogue within Non-formal Adult Education". The conference, which
were among others attended by the European Commission, the Council of
Europe, The Danish Minister of Education, MEP Bertel Haarder and
former participants of the Minority Courses 1997-1999, were discussing
the value of the non-formal education, the frame of the Minority
Course, in terms of promoting a European dimension of an active
citizenship with the Minority Courses as one model. The final
statement of the conference, formulated by the co-organising partner
"Association for Community Colleges", is available on Peoplesite under
the section "conference".
Hojskolen Ostersoen is as organiser of the Minority Courses pleased to
announce, that there will be a Minority Course 2001 in July/August
2001. The European Commission has granted the project 55.000 EURO
under a call for proposals "supporting information actions organised
by non-governmental organisations". For further and future information
please visit Peoplesite or contact co-ordinator Jesper Nielsen.
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Jesper Nielsen, Project Co-ordinator
Minority Course - Peoplesite www.people.hojoster.dk
Hojskolen Ostersoen
Flensborgvej 48
6200 Aabenraa
Denmark
Telephone: +45 74 62 47 00
Fax: +45 74 62 47 01
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